Authors

Craig Sisterson, Commissioning editor of Dark Deeds Down Under is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir.

Tauanu'u Perenise Tapu Sitagata teaches at McAuley High School in Otahuhu and the Centre for Pacific Languages in Manukau. He is a driver of the annual Samoan Language Week Secondary School Debate, which is one of his main inspirations for this book, and has received the National Excellence in Teaching Award for his efforts in teaching the Samoan language. Ani Huia Ligaliga is a Maori artist and illustrator. She studied art at Brigham Young University, Hawai'i. Her other illustrations include The Ever-Standing Tree, by Tim Tipene (Oratia Books, 2024). Ani lives in Hamilton.

Livvy Skelton-Price is an Author from New Zealand, she has published travel guides in the past and is now venturing into her fiction career. She has a blog on Medium.com and her website www.livvyskeltonprice.com

Patrick Skene was born and raised in Sydney and writes stories on the intersection of sport, history and culture. His work has appeared in Guardian Australia, The Age, Inside Sport, Boxing.com and Footy Almanac. He previously hosted an Aboriginal sports history radio program on the National Indigenous Radio Service and a boxing program on SEN Radio Melbourne. The Big O is his first book.

Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife and worked as a researcher as well as a practitioner. Her many articles on a range of midwifery issues are frequently cited, and she is well known in midwifery circles as a leading advocate of home birth. In 2019 she completed at master's in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

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Dr Tracey Slaughter is a poet and short story writer. Her first collection of poems and short stories, her body rises, was published by Random House (2005), and her novella, The Longest Drink in Town by Pania Press (2015). She has been widely anthologised and has received numerous awards, including the international Bridport Prize (2014), and BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards in 2004 and 2001. Her short story collection, deleted scenes for lovers, was published by Victoria University Press in 2016, and was acclaimed as "note-perfect" (Spinoff) and "intoxicating ... self-assured, forceful" (Listener). In 2014 she established the literary journal Mayhem. She lives in Cambridge with her partner and

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